8:1 LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
You who have ①displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
▷ ①Lit put
8:2 [For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.]
From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established ①strength
Because of Your enemies,
To do away with the enemy and the revengeful.
▷ ①Or a strength
8:3 When I ①consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
▷ ①Or see
8:4 What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
8:5 Yet You have made him a little lower than ①God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
▷ ①LXX angels
8:6 You have him rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put everything under his feet,
8:7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8:8 The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
8:9 LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!